Ventura v. Hunter Barrett & Co.

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

This venue case arose from a suit brought in Aransas County by The Ventura against Hunter Barrett & Company. Ventura, a condominiums regime, sought through injunction to have Barrett, one of the apartment owners, remove a boat dock and fish cleaning stand from a wooden sundeck area which was a part of the common elements of the condominium. Barrett filed a plea of privilege to be sued in Tarrant County, the county of his residence. Ventura controverted the plea and sought to maintain venue in Aransas County under Tex.Rev. Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 1995, §§ 9, 12 and 14 (1964).…